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Female Ministers of Barbados
(Female Suffrage 1951)British Crown Colony 1627-1966, internal self government
1954, 1958-62 member of the Federation of the West Indies and 1966 an
independent Constitutional Monarchy
Also see Barbados Heads of State
The
list of female members of government is close to complete
1966-
Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Barbados and of Her other
Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth (30.11-)
Queen of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland since 1952.
(b. 1926-)
1966-71
Parliamentary Secretary of Education Odessa Gittens
1971-76 Parliamentary Secretary of Health and Welfare G.L. Eastmond
1976-81 Minister of Health and Insurance
Dame
Billie Antoinette Miller
1981-86 Minister of Education
1985-86 Minister of Culture
1986-90 Leader of the Opposition Business in the Senate
1994-2001 Leader of the House
1994-2003 Deputy Prime Minister
1994-2008 Minister of Foreign Affairs
1994-95 Minister of Foreign Trade and International Business
1995-99 Minister of Tourism and International Transport
1999-2008 Minister of Foreign Trade
2003-2008 Senior Minister
MP from 1976 and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from about 1990, Deputy Leader of the
Opposition 1993-94, Chairperson of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth
Parliamentary Association 1996-99. In 2003 she was accorded the status and
courtesies of a Senior Minister (b. 1944-)
1985-86
Parliamentary Secretary of Education and Culture Maizie Baker-Welch
1986-90 Parliamentary Secretary of Labour and Community Development
1990-94 Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister
1994 Parliamentary Secretary of Civil Service, Labour, Industrial Relations,
Public Works and Community Development and Sports in the Office of the Prime
Minister
Ca. 1985-90 Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. (b. 1927-)
1990-95
(†) Governor General Dame
R. Nita Barrow (6.6.90.-12.9.95)
A former nurse and educator, she was Ambassador to the UN, Cuba and the
Dominican Republicn 1986-90. Her brother, Errol W. Barrow (1920-87), was Prime
Minister 1966-76 and 1986-87. She lived (1916-95)
1994-99
Minister of Health H. Elizabeth Thompson
1994-99 Minister of Environment
2001- Minister of the Environment
2001-03 Minister of Physical Development
2003-06 Minister of Housing and Lands
2006-08 Minister of Energy
MP until 2008 when she was appointed an opposition Senator.
1994-2001
Minister of Education, Culture and Youth Mia Mottley
2001-06 Attorney General and Minister of Home Affairs
2001-08 Leader of the
House
2003-08 Deputy Prime Minister
2006-08 Minister of Economic Affairs and Development
From 2001 also Member of the National Security Council and the Barbados Defence
Board. She was Senator 1991-94 and a MP for the Barbados Labour Party since then.
And former Party Secretary General. Party Leader and Leader of the Opposition
from 2008. (b. 1965-).
1994-95
Parliamentary Secretary of Education, Youth Affairs and Culture Cynthia Y. Forde
1995-99 Parliamentary Secretary of Finance and Economic Affairs
1999-2001 Parliamentary Secretary of Education, Youth Affairs and Culture
2001-08 Minister of State for Education, Youth Affairs and Culture
Since ca. 1999 3rd vice-Chairperson of Barbados Labour Party.
2003 Minister of Labour and Social Security
Lynette Eastmond
2003-08 Minister of Commerce, Consumer Affairs and Business
Development
Senator and Second Vice-Chairperson of the Bermuda Labour Party.
2008-10
Minister of Family, Youth Affairs, Sports Esther Byer-Suckoo
2008 Minister of Environment
2010- Minister of Labour
2008 Minister in the Prime Minister's Office and Leader of
Government Business in the Senate Maxine McClean
2008- Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade
Senator.
2008 Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Community
Development and Culture Irene Sandiford-Garner
2008-10 Parliamentary Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office
2010-
Parliamentary Secretary of Health
She is a Senator.
Last update 01.10.10